Lockheed Martin Joins With Tech Company to Build a Space Debris Tracking Station in Australia

CANBERRA, Australia—Space junk has become a real-life worry of the kind depicted in the hit Hollywood movie 'Gravity,' where a storm of debris rips through a spacecraft in orbit and leaves the crew stranded.

Now, U.S. defense giant Lockheed Martin Corp. has joined with a Canberra-based tech company to build a tracking station in the Australian Outback that can follow debris as small as a baseball threatening commercial and government...